I don't know about you guys but I'm having a rough couple of weeks. See, Tyler and I decided to buy a house in the middle of a pandemic and between the virus, the house, and the worldwide protests about injustice, I don't have the bandwidth to do anything. So I took a break from watching my very regimented list of films that I have to pay attention to in order to critique to watch Charlie's Angels.Elena (Naomi Scott) works for a tech startup looking at the next new thing in clean, renewable energy. Unfortunately, there is a software bug that would allow it to be hacked and produce a short-range burst that fries people's brains. Elena dutifully filed a report only to have her boss (Nat Faxon) bury it. So she turned to the Townsend Agency. What should have been a simple transfer turns deadly when an assassin (Jonathan Tucker) is sent to kill Elena and the veteran Angels, Sabina (Kristen Stewart) and Jane (Ella Balinska), protecting her. Their Bosley (Elizabeth Banks) suspects a mole within the organization and tasks the three women with recovering the deadly prototypes before they can be sold on the open market.
Overall, this is a fun popcorn movie. The action sequences are good, the settings, the costumes, the soundtrack all work. The characterization of Jane felt very rushed and hit a lot of familiar beats while Sabina was essentially a caricature. Also the dialogue felt forced in places. I honestly think the elements the didn't succeed were because it didn't lean hard enough into the camp aspect the way the 2000 iteration did. It tried too hard to be serious instead. Still, it's fun enough for a summer night when the world is literally and figuratively on fire.
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